Family DUDGEONEIDAE
Introduction
[After Edwards 1996]
This family contains only the genus Dudgeonea Hampson from Africa, Madagascar, India, South East Asia, New Guinea and Australia but may include Acritocera Butler from Fiji. For many years Dudgeonea was placed in the Cossidae but the presence of abdominal tympanal organs separates it from the Cossidae and Minet (1983) placed it in a family of its own. The relationships of the Dudgeoneidae to other families have not been resolved.
Dudgeonea was listed as a cossid genus in Lepidopterorum Catalogus by Dalla Torre (1923) and in Seitz's Macrolepidoptera of the World by Gaede (1933b). The Australian Cossidae, including Dudgeonea, were revised by Turner (1945c). A coloured illustration of the adult may be found in Nielsen & Common (1991).
Three described species are recorded from Australia and two undescribed species are known. In Australia specimens have been taken in Queensland and the Northern Territory. Dudgeonea actinias Turner has been reared from Canthium attenuatum (Rubiaceae) at Townsville.
General References
Dalla Torre, K.W. von 1923. Cossidae. Lepidopterorum Catalogus 29: 1-63
Edwards, E.D. 1996. Dudgeoneidae. 122 in Nielsen, E.S., Edwards, E.D. & Rangsi, T.V. (eds). Checklist of the Lepidoptera of Australia. Monographs on Australian Lepidoptera. Collingwood : CSIRO Publishing Vol. 4 xiv 529 pp. & CD-ROM
Gaede, M. 1933. [Cossidae] Cossus-Holocerus, Alphabetical List. 809-824, pls 93, 96-99 in Seitz, A. (ed.). The Macrolepidoptera of the World. 10. Bombyces and Sphinges of the Indo-Australian Region. 2 vols. Stuttgart : Alfred Kernen Verlag
Minet, J. 1983. Étude morphologique et phylogénétique des organes tympaniques des Pyraloidea. 1. Généralités et homologies. (Lep. Glossata). Annales de la Société Entomologique de France N.S. 19: 175-207
Nielsen, E.S. & Common, I.F.B. 1991. Lepidoptera (Moths and Butterflies). pp. 817-915, pls 7, 8 in CSIRO (ed.). The Insects of Australia. 2 vols. Carlton : Melbourne University Press xiii + vi + 1075 pp., 8 pls
Turner, A.J. 1945. A revision of the Australian Cossidae (Lepidoptera). Proceedings of the Royal Society of Queensland 56: 47-70